State of Oregon--Executive Department,
Salem, Oregon, November 30, 1912

Whereas: The women of Oregon, after long and patient
effort, have persuaded the men of the State to place them
upon a footing of political equality by granting to them the
right of suffrage through an amendment to Section 2 of
Article 11 of the Constitution of the State; and, Whereas:
Pursuant to the provisions of law, the Secretary of State of
the State of Oregon in the presence of the Governor of the
State of Oregon, did on the 29th day of November 1912
canvass the official election returns for the general
election held in the State of Oregon on Tuesday, the fifth
day of November, 1912; and, Whereas: It appears from the
said official canvass that the following measure has been
approved by a majority of the electors of the State of
Oregon who voted therein: "Section 2 of Article 11" of the
Constitution of the State of Oregon shall be and hereby is
amended to read as follows:

"Section 2. In all elections not otherwise provided for
by this Constitution, every citizen of the United States, of
the age of twenty-one years and upwards, who shall have
resided in the State during the six months immediately
preceding such election, and every person of foreign birth
of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, who shall have
resided in the State during the six months immediately
preceding such election, and shall have declared his or her
intention to become a citizen of the United States one year
preceding such election, conformably to the laws of the
United States on the subject of naturalization, shall be
entitled to vote at all elections authorized by law."

And Whereas: The above quoted amendment, at the mentioned
election received 61,265 affirmative and 57,104 negative
votes. Now, therefore, I, Oswald West, Governor of the State
of Oregon, by virtue of the authority, in me vested, and in
obedience to the provisions of Section 9 of Chapter 226 of
the General Laws of Oregon for the year 1907, do hereby make
and issue this proclamation to the people of the State of
Oregon, and vowing that the said amendment to "Section 2" of
Article 11 of the Constitution of Oregon, is now, and
hereafter shall be, in full force and effect as a part and
portion of the Organic Law of the State of Oregon.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and
caused the Seal of the State of Oregon to be hereunto
affixed this 30th day of November 1912.